Tallinn is mostly served by traditional airlines whose flights are
sold by any reasonable travel agent (Estonian Air, Lufthansa,
Finnair, CSA, LOT, Air Baltic).

Tickets to the flights of easyJet from London Gatwick, norwegian.com from Oslo
Gardermoen, Ryanair from
Bremen, Dublin, Girona, London Stansted, Manchester, Milan Malpensa and Oslo Rygge are only sold online by the airlines.

If you need to change planes, you should probably do this at
Amsterdam (KLM/Estonian), Frankfurt/Munich (Lufthansa),
Copenhagen/Stockholm/Oslo (SAS/Estonian) or Riga (Air Baltic). If you
are travelling from Asia, it is likely that your best itinerary is
with Finnair with a change at Helsinki. Finnair is very much oriented
at the Asian market and offers quick connections from Europe from
China, Japan, South Korea in particular.

Late arrivals at, early departures from Tallinn are not to be
worried about (or to try to optimize away). These times are the norm
for Northern European airports. Luckily for you, in Tallinn, the
airport is max 15 mins by taxi from any point in the city center. The
airport is small, so collecting luggage goes also fast.

From Vilnius, Riga, St Petersburg the coach services of Lux Express and
Ecolines are the most practical
travel option.

Getting from the airport to town

The city is 4 kms from the airport and you reach it by taxi or
scheduled bus.

Bus line no. 2 runs throughout the day (from early hours until
quite late in the evening). You are travelling from "Lennujaam"
(Airport) in the direction of "Reisisadam" (Passenger Port). The most
centrally located stop in the city center is "A. Laikmaa" in front of
Hotel Tallink, the travel time there is 13 min. The timetable can be
found here.

Electricity

Money and banks

From 2011, Estonia is using the Euro (EUR), the single
European currency.

ATMs abound in Tallinn although they are not always well
visible. Beware that an Estonian ATM first gives you your money and
only then returns the card. Worse, you have to ask the machine to give
your card back.

Luckily for you, these machines speak English. Almost all
businesses (but not some bus drivers, taxi drivers) accept bank
cards (even for the smallest payments) and the local people carry very
little cash.

Postal services

Postage on letters and postcards (up to 50 g) within Estonia is
0.55 EUR, to Europe and the former USSR countries 1.20 EUR,
to the rest of the world 1.30 EUR.

Post offices are open during the normal shopping hours. Stamps are
also sold in newsstands. More information from
Omniva.

Phones

Area codes are not in use in Estonia and there is no initial zero.

For international calls to Estonia: dial the prefix for intl. calls
(00 in most countries), then the country code 372, and
then the subscriber's number.

For international calls from Estonia: dial the prefix 00 for
intl. calls, then your country code, etc. Calls within Estonia: just
dial the full 7- or 8-digit subscriber's number.

The emergency number (fire brigade, ambulance) is 112. For
police only, dial 110.

There are 3 mobile providers: EMT, Tele 2 and Elisa. The GSM
frequency is 900/1800 MHz. The 3G, 3.5G and 4G coverage is very good accross the country.

The are no public payphones in the country.

Internet

Although the popularity of WiFi is declining in favor of mobile data
connection,
Tallinn is still packed with public WiFi hotspots (some 375 in all
Tallinn, whereof some 200 are in the center). In particular, you can
connect yourself in any decent cafeteria or pub (look out, e.g., for
Reval Cafes).

Internet access through WiFI or some other form is also offered by
all hotels. In reasonable hotels, this service is complimentary.

Getting around in Tallinn

The public city transportation system of Tallinn, consisting of
bus, tram and trolleybus traffic, is quite efficient. The services are
many and they run frequently. Most stops have timetables (affixed to
the stop signpost) and many also have a map of the transport system on
display (in the waiting booth). Some stops have electronic displays showing
the next incoming journeys in real-time. From the bus driver you can buy a
paper ticket for a single journey, which costs 1.60 EUR. From the
various sales points (R-Kiosk newsstands, Selver and Maxima
supermarkets, post offices) you can buy a smartcard
(Ühiskaart) for 2 EUR on which you can load prepayment or
specific tickets, at a sales point or online at www.pilet.ee. The simplest is to
prepay some amount. If you travelling with Ühiskaart, you
have to validate the card on entry to the vehicle and the cost of a
single journey (1.10 EUR) is subtracted from the prepayment. If you
make a number of journeys during a single day, the total deduction
from your prepayment is capped to 3 EUR.

A interactive public transportation map is available
here. The
timetables are here.

The best option for choosing and ordering a taxi is to use the smartphone app Taxify
(available for Android, iPhone and Windows Phone). If not, then it is
always preferable to order a taxi by phone rather than taking a taxi from the street.
You could consider a phone order
even at the airport, certainly you should not take a random taxi from
outside the official taxi rank at the airport. Some of the
recommendable taxi companies are Reval Takso (phone 1207 or 6014600), Marabu (phone 650 0006). The
reasonable rates are ~2.50 EUR initial fare + ~0.50 EUR per km
charge, but many companies / private adventurers charge much more (Taxi comparison table, in
Estonian). Check the tariffs on the window of the taxi vehicle
(there must be a yellow A4 size tariffs sticker).

Always request a printed receipt. All taxi cars are required to
have printers.

Tourist information

For tourist information on Estonia in the Web, check the web pages of
the Estonian Tourist Board.
For tourist information specifically on Tallinn, check the web pages of
the Tallinn Tourist Board.
InYourPocket.Com's unofficial
Estonia and
Tallinn pages
make an even more useful reading.

For in-depth background info on Estonia,
we recommend the Estonian Institute's
www.estonica.org.